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Thursday, January 19, 2012

Book Review: Alice's Adventure in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Book Description:

Alice falls down, down, down into a land of wonder, a place filled with White Rabbits, Mock Turtles, screaming Queens, and Mad Hatters. Join Alice as she experiences the silliness and excitement of a place gone crazy. Join thousands, even millions, of children who over the years have read about and entered into . . . Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

My thoughts:
I am slowly reading through our list of Ambleside Online Year 3 free reading and it was time to tackle Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Yes, I said tackle. When Caleb was doing this I had him listen to the audio and it wasn't a big hit, so I decided this time around I would read it aloud and see if it produced different results.

8 comments:

You know, I felt similarly when I read Mary Poppins. It is just WEIRD in places. We saw a local stage version of Alice last year and it "took after" the Johnny Depp version (which I haven't seen, but I can imagine). Maybe it just IS weird, huh?

I've never like Alice (maybe it's all the "hey where's the white rabbit" comments I got growing up). I did like the Johnny Depp version. The actress is outstanding and the interpretation of a much older Alice made more sense to me and just worked better somehow.

We read both Alice books this past Fall. I definitely liked Adventures inWonderland better than Through the Looking Glass. I'm not quite sure why, but somehow I think Looking Glass made even less sense to me than the first book did!